HR PRACTICE,DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Joshin | November 23, 2022
Joshin, a digital support platform for disability and neurodivergence in the workplace, has rolled out a comprehensive employee benefits program to support companies, employees, and their families with virtual coaching, on-demand training and personalized navigation support. The offering meets a critical need among companies developing initiatives to hire neurodivergent talent and looking to incorporate disability and neurodivergent support systems for the entire workforce.
Joshin has been offering disability support services since 2020, and expanded their services this year to accommodate a growing need in the enterprise market. Since starting the enterprise program, they have engaged more than a half dozen corporations, including Best Buy.
According to estimates, unemployment rates are close to 30% to 40% for neurodiverse talent. This is a huge untapped talent pool for companies.
“Implementing workplace support for disability and neurodivergence creates a culture where everyone belongs, and only 4% of companies are focused on disability inclusion through their DEI efforts, Disability inclusion in workplaces isn’t just the right thing, it impacts the bottom line.”
-Melissa Danielsen, CEO of Joshin
The Global Business Coalition for Education found that organizations that are most focused on disability engagement, as measured through their DEI scores, were growing sales 2.9 times faster and garnering profits 4.1 times faster than their peers. Joshin offers employees direct access to a network of specialized caregivers, as well as virtual 1:1 coaching on such topics as: supporting a new diagnosis, special education planning, nutrition, and disability in the workplace. The offering includes disability educational resources and webinars to help companies unlock the power of diversity and employee belonging.
Best Buy has always been committed to the well-being of its workforce and this disability care benefit allows us to break new ground in caring for the needs of our workforce, Joshin’s innovative program allows us to further our commitment to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and supported,said Charlie Montreuil, SVP of HR Rewards at Best Buy.
As a Best Buy employee, I am thrilled that Best Buy will be offering this much needed benefit to caregiving employees who are connected to disability and neurodivergence. It’s been an amazing support for my family. Our son has Down syndrome and autism, and it’s been very challenging to navigate finding the right support. I can’t say enough about the quality of Joshin and how easy it is to use, said Sara Sagedahl, who works in social media marketing at Best Buy.
There are 1.3 billion people globally with a disability and 39.8 million caregivers providing care to adults with a disability or chronic illness. And diversity affects workplaces far more than many people or companies recognize. According to the Center for Talent Innovation, 30% of employees are connected to disability or neurodivergence, and 62% of disabled employees have a non-visible disability. Moreover, 97% of employees with disabilities don’t feel comfortable disclosing their disability to employers—a dynamic that Joshin hopes its comprehensive support system will start to change. In current partnerships, Joshin has created a safe place for employees to self-disclose a diagnosis for the first time and get support and coaching on career, inclusion, and life.
For Best Buy and other companies, Joshin’s offering aims to improve corporate productivity by reducing days lost and improving employee health and well-being. It also transforms employers and their teams into allies by uncovering unmet needs and tailoring educational support.
About Joshin
Joshin partners with organizations to provide sustainable, ongoing support for disability and neurodivergence in the workplace through on-demand training, coaching, and personalized navigation.
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EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Insperity | January 23, 2023
Insperity, Inc., a provider of business performance and human resource solutions, has recently been recognized with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, making it on the Best Places to Work in 2023 list with the 28th rank. The Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award is exclusively based on the input of employees, who provide voluntary, anonymous feedback by filling out a company review about their work environment, job, and employer on Glassdoor.
Glassdoor allows employees to rate their overall satisfaction with the company and key workplace factors such as compensation and benefits, career opportunities, culture and values, diversity and inclusion, senior management, and work/life balance when they share a company review. Furthermore, employees are asked to share the best reasons for working at their companies, as well as any drawbacks.
Glassdoor's Best Places to Work winners were chosen based on company reviews submitted by US-based employees from 19 October, 2021 to 17 October, 2022. To be eligible to make it on the list, employers must have gained a minimum of 75 ratings for all of Glassdoor's nine workplace attributes during the year-long period. Glassdoor's proprietary algorithm, led by the company's Economic Research Team, compiles the final list and accounts for the quality, quantity, and consistency of reviews.
Insperity is consistently recognized as a top workplace on a local, state, and national level, with more than 4000 corporate offices in the US. Since 2001, when the company began engaging in best places to work programs, it has appeared on respective lists more than 160 times, demonstrating Insperity's ongoing commitment to being an employer of choice.
Steve Arizpe, President and COO of Insperity, said, "This honor is a testament to our long-standing commitment to supporting the needs and desires of our workforce so they can achieve individual and corporate success." He added, "The Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award further shows the same work we do for our clients to help them create an amazing employee experience while providing a positive and strong company culture."
(Source – Business Wire)
About Insperity
Headquartered in Texas and founded in 1986, Insperity provides HR solutions across the US. The company is distinguished by the breadth and depth of its services, providing the most comprehensive suite of scalable HR solutions in the market. It offers administrative relief, reduced liabilities, and better benefit solutions businesses require for long-term growth through an optimal blend of premium HR services and technology. With a revenue of $4.3 billion in 2020 and more than 80 offices across the United States, Insperity is making a difference in thousands of communities and businesses across the country.
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HR ANALYTICS, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
One Model | January 25, 2023
The people analytics software provider One Model recently announced an option for its people analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering hosted for local customers in Canada. The new local data processing capability will help Canadian enterprises, government agencies, academic institutions, and other large organizations to organize their human resources data securely, which delivers analysts and decision makes data-driven people insights. In addition, this new option helps Canadian companies meet important data governance goals because all processing and storage of enterprise people's data happen on Canadian territory.
The leader in people analytics celebrated doubling its size in 2022, both in terms of sales and employees. Users and practitioners have mentioned people analytics and praised the company’s People Data CloudTM platform. Additionally, the eight-year-old startup from Austin, Texas, introduced various next-generation machine-learning innovations within its One AI machine-learning technology which is built into all the company's products.
One Model's new operational capability in Canada utilizes the Amazon Web Services cloud, which provides a secure, reliable, and high-performance computing infrastructure to meet the demanding business needs of human resources data engineering and advanced analytics applications.
"The new option for People Data Cloud in Canada represents a turning point for Canadian HR and people analytics practitioners. It is yet another impressive growth milestone because our infrastructure is truly global, with the ability to go-live anywhere AWS infrastructure exists in a matter of hours," said Matthew Wilton, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at One Model.
(Source: Cision)
About One Model
Founded in 2014, One Model is the people analytics platform that helps flourishing companies make decisions about talent at every level of the organization. The People Data Cloud people analytics platform takes all the heavy lifting out of data extraction, modeling, cleansing, analytics, and reporting of enterprise workforce data. Companies from mid-size to big rapid-growing ones rely on the people analytics platform. HR teams and businesses trust its analytical toolset and accurate reports. In addition, People Data Cloud is a very open platform that helps people make ethical decisions and ensures the highest levels of security and privacy that human resource management requires.
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